A family that moved here first
Ab and Jolanda Kuijer left Amsterdam for the South of France in 2006, looking for sun, warmth, and a different pace of life. Neither of them worked in real estate. Ab had spent his career as a journalist and radio and television producer; Jolanda had worked in the region’s luxury yachting and hotel industry.
What they built instead was a way of helping other people do what they’d just done themselves — figure out where, exactly, on this coast, a life could actually work. Twenty years later, that’s still the job: not selling listings, but helping someone find their own place inside a market that wasn’t built to be easy to navigate from the outside.
Ab Kuijer
Founder, Buyer Advisor
Ab moved from Amsterdam to the Côte d'Azur in 2006, after a career as a journalist and radio and television producer. He founded Living on the Côte d'Azur the same year, and was later elected the first Dutch president of the British Chamber of Commerce on the French Riviera — since rebranded the Riviera Business Club. Twenty years on, he still takes clients through the search himself.
Jolanda Kuijer-Marinus
Owner, Buyer Advisor
Jolanda has lived in the South of France since 2006, having previously worked in the region's luxury yachting and hotel industry. She leads the interior design and styling side of the business, and is closely connected to design houses across Italy and Scandinavia — the person clients turn to once a property search becomes a home.
Feline Kuijer
Consultant, Ibiza & Portugal
Ab and Jolanda's daughter, and the second generation of the family business. Feline manages the Ibiza and Portugal side of the network, and brings a native fluency in how buyers now search — digitally, quickly, and from anywhere. She still prefers to make her own local visits in Nice.
Sophie Muizelaar
Consultant, Côte d'Azur — Paris
Sophie was born in the Netherlands and has been based on the Côte d'Azur for many years. Fluent in English, Dutch, Italian and French, she is known for listening closely before showing a single property.
Gabriel Gehllere
Consultant, Côte d'Azur
Gabriel was born and raised on the Côte d'Azur, and came to real estate through his own experience as a buyer before joining the team.
Sonika Meena
Office Manager
Sonika runs the back office — the database, the paperwork, the quiet coordination that keeps a search on schedule while consultants are out visiting properties along the coast.
Tomasz Hatlas
Renovation Consultant
Tomasz has lived in the South of France for fifteen years and leads the renovation and construction partnership that supports clients from the day they collect the keys.
Great experience. Abé takes away the complexity of buying a property on the Côte D'Azur, guiding you through the process from start to finish with a helpful, friendly and knowledgable approach.
Ab en Jolanda have helped us very well with the search for our holiday home in the Côte d'Azur. More than full service, always friendly, very quick answers to our questions, also in the weekends or evenings.
Absolutely first class from beginning to end. Jo helped me with everything. Attentiveness and kindness almost beyond the call of duty.
Verified, publicly published reviews via Feedback Company — 9.9/10 from 24 English-language reviews, 9.4/10 from 19 Dutch-language reviews.
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